A dead sea turtle washed up on the shore of a beach in West Sumatra, Indonesia littered with plastic waste and trash.

The turtle was found dead in a pile of garbage which was blown away by big waves due to the extreme weather towards Padang beach.

Sea turtles are dying in alarming numbers after they mistake tiny fragments of plastic because they look like jellyfish and crustaceans.

Unlike seabirds, they cannot regurgitate the material meaning their guts become blocked, causing them to die of starvation. Nearly all species of sea turtle are classified as endangered.

The dirty sea of ​​Padang City, West Sumatra, Indonesia with garbage, on Sunday 11 March 2022, stranded a turtle with a length of 1 meter and an estimated width of 80 centimeters.

in a supine position the turtle was found dead in a pile of garbage which was blown up by big waves due to the extreme weather towards Padang beach.

a witness to the revelation said "these turtles must have died because of this rubbish, because as far as I know turtles like clean seas, but right now the Padang city sea is full of garbage which turtles might eat garbage or get entangled in and then thrown to the beach by the big waves, ".